Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg’s 1993 first novel, is widely considered in and outside the U.S. to be a groundbreaking work about the complexities of gender. Feinberg was the first theorist to advance a Marxist concept of “transgender liberation.” Sold by the hundreds of thousands of copies and also passed from hand-to-hand inside prisons, Stone Butch Blues has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, German, Italian, Slovenian, Turkish, and Hebrew (with hir earnings from that edition going to ASWAT Palestinian Gay Women). The novel was winner of the 1994 American Library Association Stonewall Book Award and a 1994 Lambda Literary Award.
The 20th Anniversary Author’s Edition of Stone Butch Blues is available in multiple formats. A free PDF can be downloaded from this site, and a hardcopy PoD version can be purchased from Lulu.
The Transactor was started life in 1978 as a Commodore Business Machines publication used to explain low level details of the Commodore PET. In 1982 it was reborn as a bimonthly independent magazine published out of Milton Ontario (Toronto) covering all 8bit Commodore’s. This revised magazine used the slogan new slogan was “The Tech News Journal for Commodore Computers” and was paid for through advertising and subscription prices. A quick scan of the covers below and you will be able to see when this change occurred. The Commodore Transactors were mass produced using a very inexpensive mimeograph technology while the independent magazine was created using a proper printing press.
Both publications were known for their depth. They covered hardware hacking in detail and were read by serious users. One issue even boasted that it was 95% advertising free right on the cover.
pdfcpu is a PDF processing library written in Go supporting encryption. It provides both an API and a CLI. Supported are all versions up to PDF 1.7 (ISO-32000). The main focus lies on strong support for batch processing and scripting via a rich command line. At the same time pdfcpu wants to make it easy to integrate PDF processing into your Go based backend system by providing a robust command set.
This self-guided course gives numeric examples of the basic calculations that a slide rule can do. Just follow the step-by-step instructions and you will be amazed by the power and versatility of the venerable Slipstick. Click on any of the images below to get a large, unmarked, blowup of each slide rule as shown in the problem.
The site can also be downloaded as a PDF for use as a textbook.
The Pinouts Book is a free digital book created for designers and engineers as a quick reference for remembering the different pinout functions in your electronics projects.
The book covers 130 commonly used components (view list), such as connectors, single board computers, dev boards, memory cards, microcontroller chips, and more.
If you need more technical information, each page has a link at the top (e.g. pinouts.org/XXX), and these redirect to official datasheets / specifications.
We’re going to be updating the book as time goes on, and we hope you find it useful.
pText is a pure python library to read, write and manipulate PDF documents. It represents a PDF document as a JSON-like datastructure of nested lists, dictionaries and primitives. Extract and edit metadata, extract and edit text and images, add annotations.
Seems like it would be useful for a large-scale indexing effort.
Drafts of the ebook Pentesting Hardware: A Practical Guide by Mark Carney.
A book that teaches the basics of reverse engineering software. CC-BY-SA. Has its own Git repo. Available in multiple languages.
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Choose among a growing library (ebooks are added every day or so) of free public domain epub, PDF, and Kindle eBooks. All available to download, and an increasing selection available to read online. At Global Grey, you'll find the world's great literature; a wealth of knowledge from old books.
No fee or registration - although donations are greatly appreciated. You can also buy certain collections to build your library and help support the site.
This is a collection of material to learn autarky 99 (economic self-reliance / self-supply) for individuals, households and villages. All materials relevant for that can be included here, as long as they are more comprehensive than the ubiquitous article format. Only material that is free to download is of interest here (with a few exceptions). Here is what we found so far, and you’re welcome to extend it (just edit away, this is a wiki).
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Fan-made splatbooks to play Ghostbusters using the Savage Worlds system.
Appropriate Technology for Small and Subsistence Farms
PO Box 413, Veneta, OR 97487, USA
Free Downloads
All I Tech designs are public domain, a gift to humanity
These I Tech files are also located at University of California, Davis
krop is a simple graphical tool to crop the pages of PDF files. Turn double-page scans into two single-page image files. Relies on PyQT, python-poppler-qt5 and PyPDF2. Can even be run without actually installing it.
An official archive all all (and I do mean ALL) Star Frontiers materials from back in the day. Includes 2001 and 2010!
EBMUD recommends customers take some simple steps to be prepared for an emergency. Downloadable documents at this page.
Textricator is a tool for extracting text from PDFs and generating structured data (CSV or JSON). It can even work on OCR'ed documents. Describe what the document's contents look like with a YAML file and it'll extract the data using those fields. Can also be used as a Java library.
The CERT concept was developed and implemented by the Los Angeles City Fire Department in 1985. The Whittier Narrows earthquake in 1987 underscored the area-wide threat of a major disaster in California. Further, it confirmed the need for training civilians to meet their immediate needs.
Usborne children's coding books for a new generation. There are some classics in here, too.
The Internet Archive has the complete run of the comic book UFO available for download.